SIR,—Encouraged by Rachel Powell's patient reply to Stephen Fay's article,
in which he celebrated so pompously-, but prematurely, the death of the New Left, I should like to point out some characteristic instances of an unargued defeatism underlying his remarks and those of his supporters.
Stephen Fay considers the Press Council to be a monument to the failure (of Councils), and is happy to base his argument on the inevitability of failure. No suggestion that this need not always be so.
Reginald Martin emphasises the impotence of 99.9 per cent. of us (at least) to effect any changes in the 'cultural content of our society.'
Mr. Whiteman, who 'would not give this country the ghost of a chance of survival in the coming years' if the New Left were the only people who tried to think about these matters, contributes nothing positive himself.
Are they content to be like this?
Church Road, Worth, Sussex
MAURICE BUTTERWORTH
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